Sentence examples for ontological arguments from inspiring English sources

Note that this characterisation does not beg the question against the possibility of the construction of a successful ontological argument i.e., it does not lead immediately to the conclusion that all ontological arguments are question-begging (in virtue of the ontologically committing vocabulary which they employ).

In a similar spirit, Michelle, of Destiny's Child, is moved to point out to the Creator, "There is no one like you!!," which is, on reflection, one of the tidiest ontological arguments you could wish to hear.

Objections to ontological arguments take many forms.

Some objections are intended to apply only to particular ontological arguments, or particular forms of ontological arguments; other objections are intended to apply to all ontological arguments.

Many other objections to (some) ontological arguments have been proposed.

There are many kinds of parodies on Ontological Arguments.

(For Gödel's argument, see the entry on ontological arguments).

Sobel provides one chapter on 'classical ontological arguments': Anselm, Descartes, Spinoza, and Kant's critique of ontological arguments; one chapter on 'modern modal ontological arguments': Hartshorne, Malcolm and Plantinga; and one chapter on Gödel's ontological argument.

Swatkowski (2012) is the most recent collection of papers on ontological arguments.

It is not easy to give a good characterisation of ontological arguments.

It is a controversial question whether there are any successful general objections to ontological arguments.